- [Instructor] With both shafts in place,…now it's time to build a gear connection.…There are several different types of gearing connections…built in to the design accelerators of AutoDesk Inventor,…bevel gears, worm gears, and spur gears.…For this design, a spur gear is the most appropriate,…though many of the options that present themselves…in the spur gear generator will be present for worm gear,…as well as bevel gear.…I'll start the spur gear generator,…and I can use multiple different types of calculation.…

I can calculate the module and number of teeth,…the number of teeth, the center distance,…the total unit calculation, or the module.…For this design, the shafts are kept in position…based on the center points of an existing casting,…so I'll use module and number of teeth.…I'll set the gear ratio that I desire to 1.8,…and the center distance is four inches,…so I'll proceed on to selecting how the gears…will be calculated.…The first gear is the shaft that has…the large cylinder on it,…so rather than placing the gear as a component…

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6/30/2017

Inventor—the mechanical design and 3D CAD software from Autodesk—boasts an array of powerful design and engineering tools. In this course, learn about a particular group of tools in Inventor that make it easier to find and include standard components in your designs. Thom Tremblay starts by showing how to access the Design Accelerator tools—which have actually been built into Inventor for years. He explains how to replace the often tedious process of adding bolted connections, metal frames, and gears to a design with a smarter and simpler process. In addition, he discusses how to use the range of motion and loads of an assembly to generate a spring.